t acksa CARTA newsletter Volume 3, Issue 1 - February 2015

Next CARTA Symposium Addresses Language On February 20, 2015, international and local San Diego language experts will explore How Language Evolves as part of

How Language Evolves will

signers; HOW LANGUAGES GET NEW STRUCTURE Language Evolution in the Lab: The Emergence of Design Features Contact Languages and Light Warlpiri The G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Charitable Foundation. Rethinking Recapitulation: Sources of Structure in Nicaraguan Sign Language

Symposium Details CONTRASTS BETWEEN NEW AND MATURE LANGUAGES Co-Emergence of Meaning and Structure in a New Language Combinatoriality within the Word: Sign Language Evidence What Can You Say without Syntax?

LANGUAGE IN THE BRAIN Specialization for Language in the Brain How the Environment Shapes Language in the Brain Neuroscience of Speech Perception and Speech Production

Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny “to explore and explain the origins of the human phenomenon” 1

2014 Anthropogeny Field Course participants, left to right: Kiri Hagerman, Andrew Schork, Corinna Most, Stephen Johnston, Caroline Horton, Sequoyah Reynoso.

Associate Director, CARTA Ngorongoro A. ramidusA. afarensis H. heidelbergensis

and Ugalla. Image: www.imagineafrica.com Hominid Exploitation of Resource Zones Kiri Hagerman,

were simultaneously occupying and exploiting a the original 4.4 million year old ramidus fossils at the Ethiopia. Berhane Asfaw describes a hand Museum.

Models of Social Structure and Warfare

Corinna (left) and Andrew (right) shoot arrows. The Ecology of

and plants, access to water,

twisting, clawing and climbing are not well adapted to forest our limbs are not well suited to

like, suggesting a continuity

Niche Construction Neuroscience

Examples of increasing niche construction (clockwise from top):

next to the nest).

Evolution of Human Cognition Caroline Horton, technology, Caroline whittles an arrow impact, especially deforestation of the surrounding hills, is readily apparent. Inter-Species Competition Neuroscience

in Ugalla: Sequoyah (foreground and camera trap. Interestingly, the footage was recorded less than ten minutes

CARTA-Inspired Publications in bold

Cela-Conde, C.J., Ayala, F.J. Sherwood, C.C. Preuss, T Hopkins, W.D Davidson, I. Ayala, F.J. Biology: Conceptual, Ethical, and Religious Issues erectus remains CARTA-Inspired Publications, Continued Dennett, D.C. Hinde, K. Contemporary Hublin, J.J. Erwin, J.A. Gage, F.H. Finch, C.E. Hopkins, W.D., Sikela, J.M. Aging Brain Struct Funct. Careful studies of brains from aging great apes van Schaik, C., and Boehm, C Current Hawkes, K. J Theor Biol Homo sapiens Harris, C.R. Lieberman, P Tattersall, I. t acks CARTA in the News CARTA Video Statistics

of Science

CARTA Symposia Schedule CARTA on the Web

How Language Evolves iTunes

Past and Future including “Domestication and Human Evolution”

Unique Features of Human Skin

Origin of Genus Homo

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